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A mind game of collective intelligence, ad hoc collaboration,

and trust

In the beginning

Roles are assigned

And then...

Night Falls1. Werewolves kill a villager

2. The Seer tries to find a werewolf

3. The Healer tries to protect an endangered villager

4. Everyone makes noise

Day Breaks1.The victim is announced

2. Everyone investigates

3. Nominations are made, + debate and defense

4. Justice is exacted – and the village gets smaller…

Night Falls Again

GAME OVER?

All Werewolves are Dead

or

Werewolves and Villagers are equal in Number

Reveal vs. No Reveal

Night• Werewolves

select a victim

• Seer finds out if someone is a werewolf

• Healer protects someone

Day

•Victim is revealed

• Investigation, interrogation, and debate

• MOB JUSTICE

If You Are Killed

• Say nothing more – no dying gasps or final words!

• Stay and watch-- it’s a great time to learn

• Whisper your commentary to your fellow dead… Others are still playing the game!

StrategiesRemember: Anyone can say anything, and none of it is necessarily true

Pay attention to non-verbal cues

Pay attention to voting patterns

Pretend to be a different role

Develop multi-day/multi-night tactics

Develop multi-game tactics

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So why are we playing this game?What skills are we developing?

10 Powers of Super-Collaboration

Mobbability Open Authorship

Influency Emergensight

Ping Quotient Longbroading

Multi-Capitalism Cooperation Radar

Protovation Signal/Noise Management

Mobbability• the ability to perform

real-time work in large groups

• a talent for organizing and collaborating with many people simultaneously

Influency• the ability to be persuasive in

multiple social contexts and spaces • flexible, customizable rhetorical

tactics

Ping Quotient

• measures your responsiveness to other people’s requests for engagement, your propensity and ability to reach out to others in a network

Multi-Capitalism

• fluency in working with and negotiating alternate capitals

• natural, intellectual, social, financial, human, virtual, personal, e.g.

Protovation• fearless

experimentation in rapid, iterative cycles

• understanding that failure is fun

Open Authorship

• ease and savvy in creating content for “open consumption” – through peer 2 peer circulation, citation, and modification

Emergensight

• ability to prepare for and handle the surprising results and complexity that occur at larger scales

Longbroading

• thinking in terms of higher level systems, massively multiple cycles, and a much bigger picture

Cooperation Radar

• the ability to sense, almost intuitively, who would make the best collaborators on a particular task

Signal/Noise Management

• filtering meaningful info, patterns, and commonalities from massively-multiple streams of data

10 Powers of Super-Collaboration

Mobbability Open Authorship

Influency Emergensight

Ping Quotient Longbroading

Multi-Capitalism Cooperation Radar

Protovation Signal/Noise Management